QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00238: A Treatise on the Knowledge of God

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00238 from its Heritage Collection. The 684.2 MB ZIP file contains a digitized Arabic manuscript titled 'A Treatise on the Knowledge of God'. The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Conduct textual analysis of theological concepts based on the manuscript's content.
• Study paleography and manuscript illumination styles based on the digital images.
• Build digital archives or educational resources based on the digitized heritage material.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy of a specific manuscript (HC.MS.00238).
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• The specific number of pages or images is unknown, making scale assessment difficult.
• Column-level documentation is absent; the internal file structure must be inspected after download.
• Description metadata is limited; detailed catalog information requires following an external link.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 10:03:24.